529 quotes found
“God is not a scientific hypothesis that might rival evolution. To think he is reduces the Creator to a creature, a highly creative force within the universe. God is not an occupant of the universe ...”
“Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.”
“Perhaps the most striking aspect of this entire subject is that there are nonhuman primates so close to the edge of language, so willing to learn, so entirely competent in its use and inventive in ...”
“The book of nature is like the Bible: Everyone reads into it what they want, from tolerance to intolerance, and from altruism to greed. Its good to realize, though, that if biologists never stop ta...”
“I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we'd known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around...”
“The chicken is only an eggs way for making another egg.”
“Human beings are so destructive. I sometimes think we're a kind of plague, that will scrub the earth clean. We destroy things so well that I sometimes think, maybe that's our function. Maybe every ...”
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?”
“Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals although a case could be made for the dolph...”
“It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).”
“Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and f...”
“Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which...”
“It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed.”
“The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.”
“Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.”
“Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.”
“For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.”
“Evolutionarily speaking, there is seldom any mystery in why we seek the goals we seek why, for example, people would rather make love with an attractive partner than get a slap on the belly with a...”
“The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a sufficiently virulent business plan, condense it into a three-ring ...”
“people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.”
